He knew by heart what the anchors were saying.

"So,"the anchor said to the guard, "you never actually saw any Reavers?"

The whole thing in this business," said the anchor, "is sincerity.

"I'll tell the guys at Newsweek," the anchor said impishly.

"I think all the blame should be on the offensive line," said the anchor of that line.

"I think I could take him on," the anchor had said.

"And rarely have I heard the term 'nine day wonder' so well described," the anchor said, smiling.

Yesterday, the anchor said that "the concern about the debates should be the candidates, not the panelists."

"But in the end," the anchor said last week, "I can't change myself."

"This just in," the anchor said in a shaky voice.